More quotes by Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died."
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."
"The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom."
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
"I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree."